Wolves Tender Vando & Jmac

[SO_MONEY]

I wanted to mention that most teams have full 15-man rosters (some even more), and even half the two-way contracts have been filled.

This is good news for the front office, as McLaughlin and Vando’s negotiating power weakens every day.

Unless Beverley gets moved again, I'm not sure McLaughlin is brought back. For Vanderbilt, I think he ran into a situation where opposing teams knew the Wolves would match any reasonable offer and as a result he hasn't been able to get any leverage. The early Rubio trade might have actually hurt Vanderbilt since it gave Minnesota a cushion under the luxury tax line. Without the trade I could have seen some team overpaying Vando a bit so that the offer would have pushed the Wolves over the tax line.

At this point neither Vanderbilt or McLaughlin have much bargaining power. I'm hoping the Wolves make Vanderbilt a reasonably decent offer (something like $15M/3 years) so he doesn't accept the qualifying offer. I think McLaughlin is pretty much stuck accepting a Gupta special type of contract or waiting into the season to see if some team becomes desperate for a PG (and are willing to overpay or do a sign-and-trade). I could also see McLaughlin accepting the QO just to escape restricted free agency.

Way too much.

I think Vandy at $2.8mil is my MAX offer if we get several team options, otherwise the minimum over two years might split the difference of team and player interests.

[minimus]

Lets not forget that MIN is probably the best fit for Vando. There are not better fit in offense that Towns/DLo providing spacing and passing. Vando should look at Schroeder situation, instead of looking only at money, he should look at opportunity provided by playing in MIN. Take 2 year minimum deal, increase your market value, get bigger deal later.

[winforlose]

Lets not forget that MIN is probably the best fit for Vando. There are not better fit in offense that Towns/DLo providing spacing and passing. Vando should look at Schroeder situation, instead of looking only at money, he should look at opportunity provided by playing in MIN. Take 2 year minimum deal, increase your market value, get bigger deal later.

Not only this but also he won’t see minutes anywhere else. He is a third string everywhere else and a possible 2nd string here. The question for the wolves is do you let him have that deal. Unless they tie a RFA to it then they have no incentive to let him off the hook after just one more year. The QO is essentially a minimum and it puts all the risk on Vando. Any Serious injury could comprise his ability to even make a team next season. Look at Spellman. The idiot made a stink with us and then gained weight in the offseason and ended up in the G all of last year. The Wolves should pull a Juancho only for a low dollar amount. 3 years team option on the last year.